Nothing beats the excitement of Victoria González, whom the parents call Taís. The girl, aged seven, loves to dance. And dance on Wednesday, from 21h, at Casa da Música in Porto. A head up, hands up, move your body with surprising maturity.
“The Roma are very fond of dancing,” said the girl, who looks more like a woman in miniature, with its skirt and her black lace coat, their lips painted red. “Some are of worship, others are in the world. I am the world. I am not baptized. ” It is an important detail. The baptized by the Philadelphia Evangelical Church can only sing and dance for God
-. I told my mother I did not want to be baptized, because I want to keep dancing – announces, his eyes fixed on the mother .
– Dances to God, which is the same thing – the mother replies, Suzete Fonseca
-. No it’s not! If I baptize, nor can dance at weddings.
Jorge Gifts, coordinator of educational service of the House of Music, unaware of this religious embarrassment when he began to think of this project. And was surprised to realize how much the old traditions may be being taken by forms of more or less recent service.
“When we jump to such a project, either with people with disabilities, the homeless, Roma or prisoners, we never know what we will find, “says the composer. “You look at what you have and think, ‘what can I get here?’ In this case, was looking for people who do not even want to play on stage, the cult and the world, and think of a show that could integrate. “
Isabel Barros (Artistic Director) and Jorge Cheese (musical direction) accepted the challenge. There was a meeting with a pastor of the Philadelphia Evangelical Church to discuss the limits. Details were negotiated that not meddle in artistic creation. An example: the teens have baptized only dance songs “of God,” before retreating songs “worldly”
Get ready for some kind of party.. What the choreographer tried, over the last five months, was “to get the essence of Gypsy culture is on show in a special way and with a more contemporary perspective”. And realizing that “a lot has been lost in terms of singing and dancing,” despite the isolation in which they live the Roma communities in Portugal.
Gift Jorge has long wanted to work with ethnic communities gypsy. “I wanted to value what is genuine in this secular culture and give the community an opportunity to show the community at large, often biased, the gypsy has a very strong cultural roots and identity that deserves to be shared with the public going to the House . Music “
Everything converged when the artistic director of education, António Jorge Pacheco, you announced that 2015 would be the year of Germany in the House of Music and the 9th edition of the Music Festival & amp; Revolution would sound banned by the Third Reich. The Nazis did not want to hear singing or playing the Roma communities; for these, as for the Jewish, determined imprisonment, forced labor, extermination.
It was not something that the House of Music could do the foot to the hand. I needed partners, teams who knew the terrain, which had ties to one or more communities, to serve him bridge. The Municipality of Matosinhos and ADEIMA – Association for Integrated Development Matosinhos working for years with residents of neighborhoods of Pebble and Biquinha
They began to be 109 members of the two communities.. They never had entered the House of Music, an icon of the city of Porto. Victory mouth dropped open when she entered the room Suggia. The gilded or pipe organs stand in the main hall of the building designed by Rem Koolhaas. “Oh, it’s so romantic! They had to spend a lot of money to make! “
The show of essays entitled Romani , began in December last year. Still he experienced the Sunday morning, but almost no one came. Suzete Fonseca, the mother of Thais, and the other women had to prepare lunch before leaving home. Were rehearsals for Sunday afternoon.
Isabel Barros and Jorge cheese never knew to turn to. They could get to the rehearsal room and find everybody, half less, much less. On one occasion, a family died in Felgueiras, none of Biquinha appeared. In another, a family was hospitalized. In the end, resisted 46 the Roma. “I thought it could happen, is also part,” says the choreographer.
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